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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has donated $5 million to e-learning platform Khan Academy. In a video posted on Twitter, Khan Academy founder Sal Khan said he wants to give a huge shout and thank you to Elon Musk and everyone at the Musk foundation. "For their credible generous support for Khan Academy, they just recently gave a $5 million donation to Khan academy," he said. "This is going to allow us to accelerate all sorts of content and engage millions of students around the world". Khan Academy has 120 million registered users and 20 to 30 million students are using the platform every...

System, wendy kopf, teach for all and sal kan is one of the most innovative educators in the world and the founder of kan academy and tom friedman the three-time pulitzer prize winning columnist for the new york times. joel you've seen these results for years. what do you think is the big takeaway? >> the clear takeaway is we're stuck and not getting the results we need with our kids and we're going to pay a human price if we don't change, change quickly and rapidly. two points people should understand, pisa tests the kind of skills that the market is going to demand, the kind of higher order ...

Needs? >> so it's still very, very early days to know for sure but it does feel like something special is going on. what's exciting, if we talk about khan academy, more focused on k through 12 or the mooks, more focused on higher education, you're announcing very serious institutions really rethink their models. it's not about, hey, technology is going to solve the problem. it's much more about technology allows us to think from a blank late. students can get exercises, videos at their own time and pace, personalized information. maybe lass time doesn't have to be about lectures. maybe teacher...

And we are back, talking about education and the pisa scores with joel friedman, wendy kopp, tom friedman and sal khan. you describe as the revolution, finally the internet and information technology is going to revolutionize education but you know, to the extent that that is happening, it's happening in the united states more than anywhere else. can this online learning that the khan academy and so many of its imitators, and new forms of online learning, like the massive online courses colleges offer, is this going to get us around what otherwise seems like a very rigid bureaucracy which hasn...

that plane. cnn's dann simon it in reno, nevada for us. dan, the ntsb asked about those photos at a news conference today. the death toll is now up to nine from three. what did investigators have o to say? >> reporter: no question, don, investigators will be looking at the tail of that aircraft. we have seen those pictures and it's pretty certain that at least at one point during the flight what's called the elevator lift tab dislodged from the plane. aviation experts have told me it would be very difficult to control the plane if, in fact, that occurred. crews here have been at the ...